Sweden Manufacturing Growth Exceeds Forecast Sweden's manufacturing growth improved at a faster-than-expected pace in March, data from the Swedbank and the Swedish National Association of Purchasing & Logistics revealed Friday. The Purchasing Managers' Index, or PMI, rose to 53...
Commodity Currencies Slide Amid Risk Aversion Commodity currencies such as the Australian, the New Zealand and the Canadian dollars weakened against their major counterparts in the Asian session on Friday amid risk aversion, despite better-than-expected Chinese manufacturing surveys, as investors...
Russian Manufacturing Sector Contracts For Fourth Month Russia's manufacturing activity deteriorated for the fourth consecutive month in March, survey figures from Markit Economics showed Friday. The seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers' Index, or PMI, dropped to 48.3 in March from 49...
Emerging Market Crisis Series: Major Shift in Gear After suffering since 2013 and more so at the start of the year, emerging market currencies had their best month since at least 1998 according to Bloomberg’s calculations...
Japanese Long Term Debt Climbs on Weak BoJ's Q1 Tankan Report The Japanese long term debt rallied on Friday after the Bank of Japan's quarterly Tankan report disappointed market as it will put more pressure on policymakers to unleash another round of stimulus in the upcoming policy meet...
US March NFP Preview: Downside Miss Expected – TDS Research Team at TDS, suggests that the March has a tendency to be a weaker month for nonfarm payrolls, as the creation of an average of 150K jobs over the last five years falls well short of the 200K+ average in both February and April...
BoJ Tankan Worsens – Deutsche Bank Taisuke Tanaka, Strategist at Deutsche Bank, suggests that the downward risk to USD/JPY is greater under worsening Japan-US economic conditions...
Low Commodity Prices, Market Volatility Continues to Weigh on Canada's Small Business Confidence Small business confidence in Canada deteriorated again in March after taking a break in February. The CFIB business barometer index dropped 2.4 points to 52.3 in March, the lowest since early 2009...
Indonesia Inflation Rises As Expected In March Indonesia's consumer price inflation accelerated as expected in March, though slightly, figures from the Central Statistical Agency showed Friday. The consumer price index rose 4.45 percent year-over-year in March, faster than the 4...
Oil Drops Amid Risk-off in Equities Oil benchmarks fell in Asia and remain weak in early Europe amid signs of risk aversion in the Asian equities. At the time of writing, WTI oil was down almost 1% at $38/barrel. Brent oil was down 0.67% at $40.06/barrel...
Australian Bonds Slump on Firm U.S Data The Australian 10-year bond tumbled on Friday, tracking U.S. trends after strong economic data from U.S...
There is No Basis for Continued Depreciation of the Yuan - Xinhua Xinhua News Agency reporting comments from China’s foreign ministry on the Yuan and country’s fiscal policy...
Chinese PMI Suite Hints at More of the Same GDP Growth - TDS Annette Beacher, Chief Asia-Pac Macro Strategist at TD Securities, suggests that the PMI prints are really only as useful as their predictive power, and for China they remain frustratingly unreliable...
USD: Evidence of FX Reserves Rebalancing – Nomura Research Team at Nomura, suggests that the FX reserves rebalancing may explain some of the weakness in USD...
CAD: Canadian Growth Surprises - Nomura Charles St-Arnaud, Research Analyst at Nomura, suggests that a recovery in the manufacturing sector and in most sectors has pushed the Canadian growth higher. Key Quotes “Monthly GDP increased by 0...
Oil Eases in Asia, Brent Flirts with $ 40 Oil benchmarks on both sides of Atlantic resumed their broader downtrend after a brief stint to the upside seen on Thursday, as a stronger US dollar weighed on the black gold...
Asian Stocks in Red Ahead of Non Farm Job Results, Gold Finds Support Around $1230 All the major Asian markets are trading in red as market await NFP job results. In addition, Gold remains supported around $1230 mark...
BoE: Credit Crunch Risks Ahead? - BTMU Analysts at Bank of Tokyo explained that the BoE warns of credit crunch risks...
USD/JPY is Vulnerable to a Resolution - Scotiabank Eric Theoret, CFA, CMT FX Strategist at Scotibank explained that JPY is steady consolidating its recent gains, trading around the mid-point of its multi-month range...
